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Some wise boy once said, 'Early to bed, early to rise, but you don't meet any prominent people, and I guess maybe he wasn't right. He got the number then all right, all right, and he didn't have to speak harsh to Central at that. We gotta do something to amuse ourselves, and I never had a traveling gentleman yet conduct me to a watch meeting.
This is Billie. Listen. I gotta plan. A bunch of us is goin' out to Gedney to supper to-night. We're goin' to leave right after the show. Are you on?" Laurie got rid of the fair Billie. He did it courteously but very firmly. A rather unusual degree of firmness was necessary, for Miss Billie was not used to having her invitations refused.
I want a prince, so I gotta have a prince, and if any gazook makes a noise like a man with a grouch, he'll find himself fired." Miss Scobell turned to her paper again. "Very well, dear," she said. "Just as you please. I'm sure you know best." "Sure!" said her brother. "You're a good guesser. I'll go and beat up old man Poineau right away." Ten days after Mr.
"But there's nothing you can do now " "It ain't the cabin. Ah gotta git the chest " "The one in the cabin?" His black eyes were fixed upon Val's, and then they swerved and rested upon the wall behind the young Ralestone. "Ah gotta git the chest," he repeated simply. And Val knew that he would. He would get out of bed and go into the swamp after that treasure of his.
I never thought the time'd come when I wouldn't want to take the ribbons on a fine pair of horses. But this is that time. I just can't let go of you, and I've gotta some time to-night. It hurts worse'n poison, but here goes." He restored her to herself, tucked the disarranged robe about her, and chirruped to the impatient team. Half an hour later he called "Whoa!"
Three months he said would fix me. A grand old doc he was! "I been to the clinic, Charley. I hadda go. The cough the cough was cutting me in two. It ain't like me to go keeling like I did. I never said much about it; but, nights and all, the sweats and the cough and the shooting pains was cutting me in two. We gotta go easy for a while, Charley; just " "You sick, Sara?"
"Gee, fellers, I gotta go!" he gasped; and several of the comrades jumped up and ran with him into the street. If there was a single pane of glass left intact in Leesville, you would not have thought it as you trod those pavements.
"I'm a sick man, I tell you," Ladd was complaining, "an' I gotta be fed. Soup! Beef tea! That ain't so much as wind to me. I want about a barrel of bread an' butter, an' a whole platter of mashed potatoes with gravy an' green stuff all kinds of green stuff an' a whole big apple pie. Give me everythin' an' anythin' to eat but meat.
Them's the lines she used to recite to me about her she-devil of a mother, too. Gad! she used to hang on her mother's apron-strings like she was tied." "Jerry, I " "Come, Peachy, don't get me sore. Come, let's talk about to-morrow. We gotta get the license first and " "Jerry, I Promise me I can have her with me first. I Just a little yes is all I want Jerry dear just a little yes."
A blonde woman with a wry smile, an experienced charmer, sat down at the next table. He considered having another ale, making friends with her and starting a new life in Brattleboro or over the mountain in Bennington, but he knew that he was fooling himself. It was too familiar; he might as well have stayed in Maine. "Gotta go," he said to her sadly.
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